- 1. Do you learn from your successesand mistakes? How can you
enhance yourday to day performance? Melanie Greene Chartered
Occupational Psychologist Consultant, Trainer, Coach & Writer
www.inspiretransformation.co.uk
2. My Background
- Chartered Occupational Psychologist
- Set up my own business in 1991
- Been a trainer, coach and consultant for 25 years
- Free monthly coaching newsletter, Inspire, since January
2006
- 1st book: Master Your Inner Critic, Release Your Inner Wisdom
published in 2008
- 2011: creating online programmes
- Six month Coaching For Excellence Programme
- Visitwww.inspiretransformation.co. ukfor lots of free
resources, webinar recordings.
3. Six Month IntensiveCoaching For Excellence Programme
- Monthly telephone coaching sessions.
- Weekly personalised e-coaching.
- One face to face catalytic coaching session.
- Free access to learning materials.
- Email[email_address] .co. ukfor details.
4. Overview of Session
- Explore our reactions to our successes and our mistakes, what
stops us from learning from our experiences?
- Practise constructive debriefing.
- Six tips to help you learn from your experiences.
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- and failure is never fatal.
- It's courage that counts.
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- This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but
the staying down.
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- What is your usual reaction when you make a mistake or
something does not go so well?
7. 8. Why do we sometimes fail to learn from our
experiences?
- We beat ourselves up over mistakes.
- We have an emotional reaction.
- The tyranny of perfectionism.
- Nature (our personality type) and nurture (our
upbringing).
9. 10. Learning From Our Successes
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- What constitutes success to you?
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- What is your response when you succeed?
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- Do you celebrate, talk about, and enjoy it?
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- Do you doubt, ignore or deny your success?
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- Do you reflect on your successes in order to learn from and
replicate them?
- The harder I practice, the luckier I seem to get.
11. Constructive Debriefing
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- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails,
admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try
something.
12. Constructive Debriefing
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- What went well? What are you pleased with include redeeming
situations that were going wrong!
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- What would you do thesameanother time?
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- What would you do differently? A different strategy or
approach?
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- What do you think someone else would have done in your shoes?
Maybe think about a colleague, mentor.
13. Learning from your experiences
- What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first
step to something better.
- Mistakes are their own instructors.
14. Learning from your experiences
- Be self aware, manage and transform your emotions.
- Watch out for your inner critic kicking in (different from
critical thinking).
- Listen to your fearful inner child.
- Talk to a wise and trusted colleague, friend, mentor or
coach.
- Aim for approximate perfection.
15. Do you want further support?OurSix Month Intensive Coaching
For Excellence Programme is for you.
- Monthly telephone coaching sessions.
- Weekly personalised e-coaching.
- One face to face catalytic coaching session.
- Free access to learning materials.
- Email[email_address]now to receive afree auditof your
development needs.